Turkey pulls out of landmark treaty protecting women from violence
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Turkey pulls out of landmark treaty protecting women from violence

Turkey on Saturday pulled out of the world’s first binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women by presidential…
Five civilians killed in Syria’s Idlib – Turkish defence ministry
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Five civilians killed in Syria’s Idlib – Turkish defence ministry

Five civilians were killed and 10 injured in an artillery attack by Damascus-backed forces on a hospital in Syria’s Idlib…
Turkish nationalist fantasies and ‘enlarged Turkey maps’
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Turkish nationalist fantasies and ‘enlarged Turkey maps’

Misvak, the most popular ultra-Islamist humor magazine in Turkey, published a map of an enlarged Turkey last week with a…
Turkey’s Human Rights Action Plan: “Makeup on a bedridden patient” – Expression Interrupted
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Turkey’s Human Rights Action Plan: “Makeup on a bedridden patient” – Expression Interrupted

The pressure on dissidents in Turkey has spiked up in the aftermath of the2016 failed coup attempt. The country became…
Turkey’s human rights record makes rapprochement with West ‘impossible’
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Turkey’s human rights record makes rapprochement with West ‘impossible’

Turkey’s poor human rights record makes a rapprochement with the West impossible, Simon A. Waldman, an associate fellow at the…
Opposition leader claims domestic violence increased in Turkey after İstanbul Convention
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Opposition leader claims domestic violence increased in Turkey after İstanbul Convention

Temel Karamollaoğlu, chairman of the Islamist opposition Felicity Party (SP), has claimed that cases of violence targeting women increased in…
11-month-old baby forced to accompany mother sentenced to 9 years in prison
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11-month-old baby forced to accompany mother sentenced to 9 years in prison

Yasemin Melizci, 29, who was arrested on terrorism charges for alleged links to the Gülen movement and was accompanied by…
Turkish court finds government culpable in death of 12-year-old Kurdish girl
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Turkish court finds government culpable in death of 12-year-old Kurdish girl

A Turkish court has found the Interior Ministry partially culpable for the death of a 12-year-old Kurdish girl, who lost…
Interior Ministry tasks 3 inspectors with investigating alleged irregularities at İstanbul Municipality
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Interior Ministry tasks 3 inspectors with investigating alleged irregularities at İstanbul Municipality

Turkey’s Interior Ministry has ordered three inspectors to investigate allegations of irregularities at the İstanbul Municipality raised by the city’s…
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